gym-julia

This is an alternative version of my cart pole custom AI Gym environment written in Julia to compare execution speed with the Python version.

• Test-Julia-version.ipynb - test script and results
• CartPoleBTEnv.jl - Julia code for simulating environment
• cartpend.jl - Cart-pendulum dynamics equations

Initial Test Results

Test	Python	Julia	Ratio
100 episodes using LSODA solver	6.9 seconds	1.4 seconds	~5
100 episodes using RK45 solver	7.7 seconds	-	-
100 episodes using DP5 solver	-	1.5 seconds	-
100 episodes using Tsit5 solver	-	1.5 seconds	-
100 episodes using Euler approximation	1.8 seconds	0.068 seconds	~26

Test machine: 2.3 GHz Quad core Mac Mini 2012 with 16 GB RAM